Showing posts with label Harvey Comics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Harvey Comics. Show all posts

Friday, October 10, 2025

Halloween Hospital Horrors WITCHES TALES "Tank of Corpses" & TALES OF VOODOO "Satan's Dead Demons"

Did You Know Hospitals Had Floating Corpses En Masse in Tanks of Formaldehyde?

..although not in a swimming pool-type glass tank as shown here!




Though this story from Harvey's Witches Tales #9 (1952), illustrated by Joe Certa, was not reprinted until over a half-century later (in 2012), the script (by an unknown writer) was reused for a redrawn version by Alberto Macagno that appeared only twenty years later in Eerie's b/w anthology magazine Tales of Voodoo V5N6 (1972)...and several subsequent reprintings in other Eerie Publications titles over the years!







I have no idea if the concept of a witch coming back to life if her hair is cut is an actual folk belief or just something conceived by the writer!
But it's kool, eh?

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Friday, May 17, 2024

HI-SCHOOL ROMANCE "Unfaithful" & "My Answer"

It's amazing how many romance comic stories involve doctors, nurses, or both!
Case in point, this tale from Harvey's Hi-School Romance #10 (1951), which despite the book's title, has nothing to do with high school!
Illustrated by John Sink and illustrated by an unknown scripter, this is an entertaining, but moderately-improbable tale.
However, when it was reprinted in Harvey's Hi-School Romance #68 (1957), the newly-created Comics Code Authority demanded numerous changes in the story...beginning with the very first caption and the title...
Interesting how much re-writing was done, eh?

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Friday, December 24, 2021

CoronaVirus Comics FIRST ROMANCE "Midnight Kisses" and FIRST LOVE "Prescription - Love"

Usually it's two women fighting over the same man...
...but now, the tables are turned as a female MD must choose between a fellow doctor or a fever-ridden patient!
This tale from Harvey's First Romance #9 (1951) seems innocent, in fact, downright innocuous, eh?
The Comics Code Authority, founded in 1954, didn't think so!
When the story was reprinted in Harvey's First Love #79 (1957), they insisted on numerous changes...beginning with the title...which they apparently thought was too salacious!
Most of the other changes involve captions and dialogue, but also note a couple of art modifications!
Did the Comics Code go too far?
Were they over-reacting?
Enquiring minds want...nay...need to know~
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Friday, December 17, 2021

CoronaVirus Comics TRUE LOVE PROBLEMS AND ADVICE ILLUSTRATED "Was It Love or Pity?"

You've read this basic plot before...but there's several twists you haven't seen...
Oddly, our tale, though listed second in the table of contents, appeared in the back of the book!
Dr Mathews doesn't think much of his own daughter...
This never-reprinted tale from Harvey's True Love Problems and Advice Illustrated #2 (1949) was illustrated by comics workhorse Bob Powell.
The scripter is unknown, but could have been Powell himself.
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NELLIE THE NURSE "Who Will Care for the Millionaire?"

After the Last Three Weeks of Conflict and Chaos... ...and what was happening in this blog on Hope Ship was no laughing matter either, we...